How to do Ecology - a concise handbook

This is perhaps the best value for dollar investment any aspiring or beginning graduate student in fields even vaguely similar to ecology could make. The book is "How To Do Ecology - A concise handbook" By Rick Karban and Mikaela Huntzinger. It is well written, and it answers questions like "how should I approach my first presentation?" "How to get down to the nuts and bolts of a big-picture question" and "where is the balance between experiment and natural history?", while offering some well-thought out answers to more general questions, like "why does it seem like I am not keeping up in graduate school unless I am a complete fanatic about my research?" This book will will save you hours of work and perhaps years of pain as you begin your career. If you an advanced grad or professor - give it to your best undergrads as they get going in their careers. It's that good, and it took me only about 4 of my sons swim lessons to read.